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WASHINGTON--Gov. Blagojevich, in the most detailed interview to date on how he will fill the Senate seat formerly held by President-elect Barack Obama, told me Tuesday his replacement does not have to be an African American and he is open to selecting someone who would serve only the two years left in the term.
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama wanted to brush it off, the question about how he came to eat all the harsh words he said against Hillary Rodham Clinton during the heated Democratic primary.
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama dramatically starts to define his presidency with the selection today of his former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state.
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama picked prominent Chicagoans -- all prolific fund-raisers -- to co-chair his Presidential Inaugural Committee.
WASHINGTON --Dipping into their close circle of Chicago friends to find the new White House social secretary, President-elect Barack Obama and wife Michelle named business executive Desiree Rogers to the job Monday.
WASHINGTON -- Penny Pritzker, the Chicago billionaire who played a key role in President-elect Barack Obama's political career, said Thursday she does not want to be considered for commerce secretary, issuing a statement after her name had been mentioned for the Cabinet spot.
President-elect Barack Obama, inspired by Abraham Lincoln as he prepares for his presidency, is gathering his own team of rivals -- huddling with Sen. John McCain in Chicago on Monday while behind the scenes considering whether Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will fit into his administration as secretary of state.
Lynn Sweet: Friday night, President-elect Barack Obama and wife Michelle headed toward Chicago’s Gold Coast to attend a birthday party for Valerie Jarrett hosted by another pal, Desiree Rogers. Earlier in the day, she got her gift: In Obama’s White House, Jarrett will be a senior adviser and assistant to the president for intergovernment relations and public liaison.
WASHINGTON — Valerie Jarrett will be a senior adviser and assistant to the president for intergovernmental relations and public liaison in the Obama White House, a role that will allow her a wide latitude in advising President-elect Barack Obama and the first lady.
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's transition co-chair Valerie Jarrett is headed toward a senior position in the White House, I've learned, rather than a Cabinet post. Meanwhile, Jarrett Wednesday shut down speculation about replacing Obama in the Senate when she said she's not interested in the seat.
Lynn Sweet: President-elect Barack Obama's transition co-chairman John Podesta pledged Tuesday "to make this the most open and transparent transition in history." Meanwhile, let's see if the Obama team provides more than the legal minimum when it comes to details on how private money is being raised to help bankroll the transition operation.
Lynn Sweet: President-elect Barack Obama sized up the Oval Office on Monday and pronounced it "pretty nice" after touring the White House with wife Michelle on a cordial visit hosted by President Bush and wife Laura.
WASHINGTON -- The most elite private schools here are competing for Obama's daughters, and Michelle Obama toured two of them during a Monday day trip.
Lynn Sweet: In getting ready to be president, Barack Obama said Friday he is consulting with the living former presidents and President Bush, re-reading some of Abraham Lincoln's writings and wrestling with what he kiddingly called a "major issue"-- what kind of dog to buy for his daughters.
Lynn Sweet: When William Daley was looking for someone to manage his brother's 1989 race for mayor of Chicago, a brash Rahm Emanuel pitched himself for the job.
Lynn Sweet: Rep. Rahm Emanuel is weighing an offer from President-elect Barack Obama to be his chief of staff.
Lynn Sweet: What does a man do on the day he is elected president, transforming politics along the way in a sweeping victory, proving that there are no red states, there are no blue states, but a nation of Obama states? Somewhere between 1:31 a.m. on Tuesday and his departure at 7:33 a.m. to vote, Obama had his last night to sleep, if that is what he did, without the awesome responsibility that comes with the White House.
In what he called a "little bit of a bittersweet time," Barack Obama on Monday announced that his grandmother had died, the day before her grandson is likely to be elected president.
